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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Comcast on Tuesday was scrambling to repair the damage after a phone representative's rude treatment of a couple trying to disconnect their service went viral, thanks to a recording they posted on the Web. The couple -- former Engadget editor Ryan Block, now at AOL, and his wife, TV host and writer Veronica Belmont -- called Comcast over the weekend and asked to cancel their service over the phone. Instead of simply fulfilling their request, however, the Comcast representative repeatedly demanded an explanation for their decision.

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Comcast Rep Tears Into Fleeing Customer 'Like a Pit Bull on a Pork Chop'

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Google on Tuesday announced Project Zero, an effort to speed up the security bug-fixing process. A team of cybersecurity experts will go after vulnerabilities in any and all software, notify the vendors, and then file bug reports in a public database. The Project Zero team has promised to send bug reports to vendors in as close to real-time as possible, and to work with them to get fixes to users in a reasonable time. The announcement will shake up software vendors, who are not noted for patching vulnerabilities rapidly.

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Google's Project Zero Cybersecurity Watch: No Excuses

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Google on Tuesday announced Project Zero, an effort to speed up the security bug-fixing process. A team of cybersecurity experts will go a...

Blockbuster fighting game series Super Smash Bros. is expanding its ranks with the addition of three new characters to its upcoming installment. The fourth title in the series will continue the tradition of pitting characters from a string of Nintendo franchises against each other in battle arenas. The latest to join the cast for the Wii U and 3DS game are Lucina and Robin from Fire Emblem: Awakening and Captain Falcon of F-Zero fame. Robin is the main playable character created at the start of Fire Emblem.

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Super Smash Bros. Packs In 3 More Fighters

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Blockbuster fighting game series Super Smash Bros. is expanding its ranks with the addition of three new characters to its upcoming insta...

Crashlytics is a rare bird in today’s developer tool landscape — and a breed that is getting rarer by the day. Namely, a suite of developer tools that includes crash reporting, beta testing and now real-time retention and usage metrics that is not owned by Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. The bigs have their hands in this pie because they must. Developer tools are not something… Read More

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Twitter’s Crashlytics Launches Free Real-Time Metrics With Answers

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Crashlytics is a rare bird in today’s developer tool landscape — and a breed that is getting rarer by the day. Namely, a suite of developer ...

It's a given that hackers can and do penetrate websites with laughable ease, ranging from those of retailers to those of the United States government. It certainly doesn't help the security-minded to know that the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries' spy agencies, including the UK's GCHQ and the West German intelligence agency, are tapping into online communications at will. In fact, the Germans have set aside $136 million for that purpose. Symantec's recent admission that antivirus software is dead didn't help matters.

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What's Eating Internet Security?

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It's a given that hackers can and do penetrate websites with laughable ease, ranging from those of retailers to those of the United St...

Monday, July 14, 2014

It's been difficult to hear ourselves think here in the Linux blogosphere lately, what with all the distractions that have been thrown our way. We've had the NSA casting aspersions on Linux users; we've had the IRS looking askance at FOSS. We've even had the well-respected Tor Project sucked into a lawsuit over revenge porn, of all things. Ready for the latest? None other than this: "Is Firefox dying a slow death?" That, indeed, was the headline over at ITworld, and variations on the theme could be heard elsewhere in the blogosphere as well.

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